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If you're a computer person who grew up in the 80's or 90's, you probably understand a lot about the history of the industry, especially on Apple, Microsoft and
by msane 12y ago
If you're a computer person who grew up in the 80's or 90's, you probably understand a lot about the history of the industry, especially on Apple, Microsoft and the internet. But if you happen to know only a little about PARC and SRI International you would do yourself a huge service to spend some time on youtube around those subjects. Most of what happened over those decades was started in those circles.
- jmspring 12y agoA lot of us living in the Bay Area at the time saw a lot of dynamic research some of which through apple, etc was commercialized, some through the companies them selves. Ibm almaden and HP research had a lot going on at the time as well.
- fit2rule 12y agoI remember the advances being made by companies like Wang and MIPS in the 80's and early 90's - things which seem so foreign and distant today, yet still we're working towards them. Wang, for example, had some amazing document/image-management features which are still yet to be realized in the modern era. When I think about all the tech that Wang put into making a decent system, how it was all taken for granted - and subsequently lost as new markets emerged to ruin the company - its astonishing! It makes me wonder what sort of things we're taking for granted today which will be re-invented in the decades to come, spiced up with a bit of marketing-boy fairy dust, and rolled out to the masses for consumption.